Fokiya Akhtar has over two decades of combined experience as a teacher-scholar and filmmaker. Professor of Film and Video at College of Communication and Media Sciences at Zayed University, Dubai, UAE. She has worked as a Freelance Producer/Director and has produced educational documentaries and instructional television programs for University Grants Commission countrywide classroom in New Delhi. Ms. Akhtar has produced and directed independent documentary films and also produced documentaries, live shows, game shows, current affairs programs for various production houses in India and Oman and UAE.
Her documentaries have won official selections and best film nominations at Mumbai International Film Festival; Golden Gate Fiction and Documentary Film Festival; San Francisco Film Festival; International Children’s Film Festival and Delhi International Film Festival which include Children of God, a documentary on special needs children in Dubai (2011) and All Alone and Lonely, a documentary on the widows and orphans of Kashmir (2009).